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Technology Overload

Dec 10, 2014 • 6 min read

Internet Addiction Disorder - IAD, was the diagnosis when a man had to be treated for the addiction to Google Glass, wearing it 18 hours a day. He would remove it only to sleep and wash. Google Glass could be the nearest thing to using our mind to see the world beyond our normal vision. This person, and may be others, may not be able to distinguish between his own dreams, and what he saw on the glass. This first ever case of addiction to Google Glass had been reported in September 2013, at the US Navy Substance Abuse and Recovery Programme. But the term Internet Addiction Disorder had been coined in 1995 by Dr. Ivan Goldberg as a hoax, by applying criteria from gambling addiction on to the internet. A study in 2011 with university students in several countries had shown that "most students were unable to voluntarily avoid their tech gadgets for one full day".